"I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!"

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Source : "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

Imre KertÃ©sz

#Our World Quotes #Order Quotes #Sick Quotes

“The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.”
“I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.”
“Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.”

Source : "Childhood and Society". Book by Erik Erikson, 1950.
“I would rather lose half of our clients than half of our clients' money.”
“All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty with eyes filled with fire, like a lover's eyes: all of this is yours; you gave it to me, sunlight! all these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!”
“At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.”
“I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls?”

Source : Jimmy Santiago Baca (2007). “A Place to Stand”, p.102, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.”

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